Amiga 4000T external Floppy

[SACC-guy]

Hey All,
In working on a 4000T(amiga tech version)
I finally figured out there is a way to use an external floppy.

But it takes making a internal cable(34 pin?) to external db-23 connector.

Has anyone made one? AmigaKit?

Any info?

M

[mechy]

why not just install it in the tower as another normal floppy and run the 34 pin cable to it

[danbeaver]

Well you can go that way, or on the Floppy card you will notice that there are holes for soldering a 23-pin D-Sub connector; you would then use a male-female 23-pin extension cable to take it to the back where there are punch-out holes in that size (you may have to remove the SCSI terminator from the I/O back card, but that is simple).  This will give you the power supply to a normal external floppy.

[SACC-guy]

@mechy
every other Amiga has the use of df0,df1, df2.df3.
The 4000T can only use df0 and df1, internally. As shipped.

The 4000T has only five bays and one is used by the floppy.
If you add a cd drive, you're down to three.
Consider what you might add that needs those front bays and adding the second
internal floppy drive is less important.

But after the tower is closed up, and you need/want to use a second floppy...
For the record, a zip drive, an cf drive and a tape drive.
M

[danbeaver]

Well...

As you are against soldering and attaching cables, you can use a Catweasel device off the IDE port to add two more Amiga floppies is DD and HD. that can be addresses as DF2 & DF3.

Or ask AmigaKit or someone to make you one; SACC should have tons of people to make one.  Heck, I probably have the crap here at home to crank one out, at least a 23-pin male D-sub and 34-pin cable (not sure of the port header).

[danbeaver]

[SACC-guy]

Well...

As you are against soldering and attaching cables, you can use a Catweasel device off the IDE port to add two more Amiga floppies is DD and HD. that can be addresses as DF2 & DF3.

Or ask AmigaKit or someone to make you one; SACC should have tons of people to make one.  Heck, I probably have the crap here at home to crank one out, at least a 23-pin male D-sub and 34-pin cable (not sure of the port header).

@danbeaver
Not against soldering and attaching...

Just don't want to risk the (at the moment) impossible to find daughter cards.
So I thought with a little info, I could find a ready made solution.

[danbeaver]

Sorry, made a mistake; that would be a female 23-pin D-sub, but I just used my last one to make a cable for Amiga to 8-pin mini Framemeister for a direct connection.

You can pick up the 23-pin D-sub on eBay and Amibay.